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Sleepless in Pre-Battle (572)

Cresselia VS Darkrai!

In Canalave City, while exploring and looking for the gym, Ash & Co. fall into the world of nightmares. It seems that Darkrai is nearby and lettling loose its dark powers. However, legends say Cresselia is also nearby and when she appears, a climatic battle between Cresselia & Darkrai is sure to take place...

Well from the pics it looks like everyone in that place are having problem in sleeping because of the nightmares (don't know whether its because of Darkrai or the weird machine that TR has). And it looks like Team Rocket are selling fake Lunar Wings to everyone. This is as much as i understood from the pics till now. Will post more later.

Edit:- After blasting of TR early in the episode the Ash & co go to sleep only to be scared by Darkrai's nightmare & everyone wakes up because of it & can't sleep at all. And i think that everyone then go to a cave sort of place (maybe the went to either New Moon Isles or the Full Moon Isles).

Edit:- Well it seems Brock was the one who identified the Real & Fake Lunar Wings & also we see Dawn use Swinub (not initially for battle but to use its sences to snif out the Real Lunar Wing & to find its source) in this episode & it has evolved to Piloswine in this episode while trying to save Dawn & others & Cresselia from TR.

Then we see Darkrai appearing & i think bith Cresselia & Darkrai have a fight (in front of Ash & Co & Jenny). And i think the episode ends here after the fight. This episode Oak asked question about Flygon.

This should have been titled 'Cliché Team Rocket Plot! Swinub evolves?!' , because for an episode called 'Cresselia vs. Darkrai', there sure wasn't much Cresselia vs. Darkrai in it. Of course, two tackles into one another before Cresselia rises up and....screams is incredible no matter which way you slice it, but I'm Gravy. I'm a rebel, and I'm not going to let the opinions of the masses sway ME!
This was rather lame.

Swinub evolved in the most generic way possible and we see Hikari still has the Lunar Wing she obtained in the 10th movie, but that was pretty much it.

This should have been titled 'Cliché Team Rocket Plot! Swinub evolves?!' , because for an episode called 'Cresselia vs. Darkrai', there sure wasn't much Cresselia vs. Darkrai in it. Of course, two tackles into one another before Cresselia rises up and....screams is incredible no matter which way you slice it, but I'm Gravy. I'm a rebel, and I'm not going to let the opinions of the masses sway ME!
This was rather lame.

Swinub evolved in the most generic way possible and we see Hikari still has the Lunar Wing she obtained in the 10th movie, but that was pretty much it.

It makes me want to buy platinum though.

So much for the BS people say about the movies being in a different "reality" then eh? :P

OK, so how was it, guys? I don't mind spoilers, so bleh. I know Swinub evolved, but I heard about one of the most funny mistakes they'd ever do - Mamoswine in the opening instead of Piloswine. How was it overall? And from all the complains I see...

Oh, and Blackjack Gabbiani - Are you trying to imply that the guy selling the Lunar Wing is Tabitha form the manga? Or is it just me?

Well here is a summary of the episode by "PKMN_Veteran" of Bulbagarden Forums,

Short Summary and Impressions:
- Strange noise comes from Mio Gym but a sleepy guy comes in saying Yougan isn't there
- Group stops by Officer Jun to find her sleepy as well. Tells everyone that people having nightmares possibly from Darkrai
- Rocket-dan selling some feathers that were supposed to help everyone sleep but get caught and blasted by Pikachu
- Satoshi's nightmare is a lower-budget version of the nightmare from the Darkrai movie. Everyone seems to have experienced a nightmare
- Everyone travels to an island with Rocket-dan following
- They find a real Lunar Wing and Piplup tries to sniff out Crecilia but ends up finding a Koduck
- Urimoo ends up finding the place where Crecilia is
- Crecilia falls victim to Rocket-dan's Legendaries can be caught net. Everyone else is captured as well
- Urimoo ends being the only one able to fight Rocket-dan and evolves into Manmoo (It was in the OP already!)
- Manmoo then blasts Rocket-dan to wherever
- Crecelia goes over to Mio City in order to find the source of the nightmares and Darkrai appears
- It is found that the machine Rocket-dan brought made Darkrai appear
- Crecelia uses what appears to be Lunar Dance and Darkrai goes away

Orchid-Hakase Lecture: Flygon

This episode had a plot more geared toward Crecilia's ability to dispel nightmares. There was not much of a fight between Crecila and Darkrai which was different from the impressions given by the preview. It ends up being used for Urimoo's evolution.

and we see Hikari still has the Lunar Wing she obtained in the 10th movie, but that was pretty much it.

FINALLY.
For once, my odd memory of remembering extremely meaningless plot points comes in useful. I mentioned that a few times and it was just glanced off...but oh, it was mentioned.
Yes, I have issues with letting things go.

Given that the first time we see him, he's working for an ex-Magma? Yes.

Oh yes. He was working for Butler... I know what you mean, in terms of the similarity we see. Resemblance, resemblance.

I'm surprised though, Dawn still has her Lunar Wing. Well, that goes to show that there is a connection between movies & the anime besides the Mewtwo plot.
---How was the whole episode? Hm?

- Group stops by Officer Jun to find her sleepy as well. Tells everyone that people having nightmares possibly from Darkrai

Lucario At Service, you do notice that PKMN_Veteran did that silly mistake, right? I think PKMN_Veteran was suppose to write Junsa, not Jun. Unless PKMN_Veteran meant a short form, then... that's a different case.

There's always been a connection between the show and the movies. Why are you acting like this is something new? I think the only one that wasn't referenced in the main series somehow was the third one.

Is it CONFIRMED the Lunar Wing Dawn has is the same she obtained in the 10th movie...? After all, they all get nightmares anyway that night. While watching the thing, I was under the impression she just had got it in the same place as everyone else (Team Rocket) but that's me and my knowledge of Japanese language (zero)... >.>

As much as I love the 10th movie, this episode better not being related to it at all. Specially because this Darkrai is just randomly retarded. And of course they need to use the Pok&#233;Dex to check what Pok&#233;mon it is.

You've gotta see her, go insane and out of your mind
Latina Ave Maria
A million and one candlelights

Totally pegged this sucker as an anticlimax from its conception. But hey, considering how my expectations for this feud were pretty much nonexistent, there's hope yet that I may be able to squeeze a little enjoyment out of this episode when I finally actually watch it instead of leeching off other's opinions.